Overview

Ratings & Reviews

Special Features

Deleted Scenes

Kill the Messenger: the all-star cast

Crack in America

Filming in Georgia

Feature commentary with director Michael Cuesta

Synopsis

Kill the MessengerAdapted from author Nick Schou's book Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb, director Michael Cuestra's fact-based drama stars two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner as the reporter whose life came to an abrupt and particularly suspicious end after revealing the CIA's involvement with the importing of cocaine into the United States in the 1980s. Paz Vega co-stars. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Cast & Crew

Overall Customer Rating

4.2 (155 Reviews)

95% of customers recommend this product.

5

Reminds me of a book I was reading
Posted by: ssumner13 from: on If you think the government is covering up something your probably right. This movie deals with some of the biggest cover ups in Americas history. At least a known cover up and the movie is loosely based on facts too.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

5

Great movie!!!
Posted by: ginab01 from: on Jeremy Renner is great at portraying Gary Webb! I highly recommend this movie!!!

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

4

Very good story
Posted by: Jalen from: on I've previously seen documentaries on, the real, Rick Ross which made this perspective more interesting.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

4

Great actors and acting about a true story!
Posted by: MiamiBev from: on Fan of Jeremy Rinner since "Hurt Locker". I have all of movies. This was not a good way to showcase his talents as an action star. This is a slower pace telling of a true story. This movie is full of talented actors.You will not be disappointed in Jeremy. He is a handsome guy with beautiful blue eyes and long eye lashes. Money well spent.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

5

Exposing the Government
Posted by: Madeindade from: Miami, FL on I like how exposure of all the wrongs that our government has committed can show how it's not a perfect system.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

5

Great movie
Posted by: eedalton33 from: Asheville, NC on I love this movie. Great action and story. The acting is great.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

4

Solid Political Thriller. Great Ensemble Cast.
Posted by: VandyPrice from: Arkansas on Kill the Messenger is a true tragedy. A discussion and a meditation on the human life and the countless directions it could go according to the mind that is guiding it. It is a story that takes on the model of what its main character goes through reinforcing the difficulty with which he experiences in trying to follow the guiding light he caught a glimpse of as a child. Despite what else might go on in his life Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) is an idealistic journalist who believes in the power of his profession. He is a man held to the virtues of his responsibilities to the American public and, as he should, takes that responsibility seriously. He is as ambitious as he needs to be in wanting to crack the one big story that might break his career wide open and send him from the bowels of the San Jose Mercury News to the big leagues of the The Los Angeles Times or Washington Post though these ambitions never feel as important as his need to produce quality. What the film tells of more than it does necessarily follow the plot of the story Webb is investigating is the role of man in our society when he plays with the powers that be. What is wrong with our government if we are not allowed to question them without repercussion? In this case the repercussion is that of Webb becoming the story, his credibility called into question, rather than what he'd actually investigated and reported on being the story or point of focus. It is as much a commentary on the integrity of investigative journalism and how it has devolved into what we have today (the 24-hour news cycle on roids) as it is an interesting take on the state of our country which promises and promotes freedom, but will devour you if you take those liberties to a certain extent. Kill the Messenger is an engaging film, one reminiscent of those 1970's Robert Redford films (namely All the President's Men) taking the paranoid political thriller and transcending even that genre classification because of the real life weight the story holds.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

5

Great movie
Posted by: Jazz from: on Wonderful movie on what really happen in the 80's on the Regan's adminstration part with the Contra's on the dropping of the cocaine into innner city communities.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

4

Sad state
Posted by: BoDog from: on Based on a true story. Well acted. Just pains you to see and learn afterward the destruction of a man because he believed in his work and the right of the people to know. Trying not to give it away on this one.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

1

excellent
Posted by: chris from: on Great movie! Great story and would recommend to adults.